The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1887-05-26

menus IN Ln6So Clues building mafDl0
palaces, their owners dying worth mill
ions and millions and millions, who made
a vast amount of their estate out of the
blood, and muscle, and nerve of half-paid
clerks. Such men as-well, will not
mention any name. But mean men VIII o
have gathered up vast estates at the ex-
pense of the people who were ground
under their heel
like it here, then go and get better
place."
As much as to say:
"pve got you in my grip, and mean to
hold you; you CAM get any other place"
0, what contrast we see between such
men and those Christian merchants Of
Brooklyn and New York who to-day are
sympathetic with their clerks-when they
pay the salary, acting in this way:
This salary that / give you is not all
my interest in you. You are an immortal
man; you are an immortal woman; / am
interested in your present and your ever
lasting welfare; want you to understand
that ii I am a little higher up in this
store, am beside you in Christian SYM
pathy."
Go back forty years to Arthur Tappen's
store in New ork-a man whose worst
enemies never questioned his honesty.
Every morning, he brought all the
clerks, and the accountants, and the
weighers into a room for devotions.
They sang. They prayed. They
exhorted. On Monday morning the clerks
were asked where they had attended
church on the previous day, and what the
sermons were about. 1t must have
sounded strangely, that voice of praise
along the streets where the devotees of
mammon were counting their golden
beads. You say Arthur Tappen failed
Yes, he was unfortunate, like great
many coed men; but understand he met
all his obligations before he left this
world, and / know that he died in the
peace Of the gospel, and that he is before
the throne of God to-day-forever blessed.
Ii that be failing, wish that you may all
fail There are great many young men
in this city-yea, in this housewife want
word of encouragement, Christian en-.
enlargement. One smile of good cheer
would be worth more to them tomorrow
morning in their places of business than
present of IS 1000 ten years hence.
U, l remember the apprehension and
the tremor of entering profession. re-
member very well the man who greeted
me in the ecclesiastical court with the III,
ends of the long fingers of the left hand;
and remember the other man who took
my hand in both Of his ana said:
-"dod bless you, my brother; you have
entered glorious profession; be faithful
to God and he will see you through
Why, l feel this minute the thrill Of that
handshaking, though the man who gave
me the Christian grip has been in Heaven
twenty-five years. There are old men to-
day who can look back to forty years ago,
when some one said kind word to them
Now, old men, ply back what you
got then. 1t is great art for old
men to be able to encourage the
young There are many young people in
our cities who have come from inland
counties Of our own State, from the gran
lite hills of the North, from the savannahs
of the South, from the prairies of the
West They are here to get their fort
une They are in boarding houses where
every body seems to be thinking of him
self. They want companionship, and they
want Christian encouragement Give it
to them.
My word is to all clerks in this house:
Be mightier than your temptations. A
Sandwich islander used to think when he
slew an enemy all the strength of that
enemy came into his own right arm. And
have to tell you that every misfortune
you conquer is so much added to your
moral power. With omnipotence for
lever and the throne of God for
fuicrum, you can move earth and
Heaven. While there are other young
men putting the cup of sin to their Inns,
stoop down and drink GU of the fountains
OF God, and you will rise up strong u
thresh the mountains. The ancients uset.
to think that pearls were fallen raindrops
which, touching the surface of the sen,
hardened into gems, then dropped to tie
bottom. have to tell you to-day that
storms OF trial have showered imperish-
able pearls into many young mans lap.
o, young man while you have goods to
sell, remember you have soul to save.
In hospital Christian captain, wound
ed few days before, got delirious, and in
the midnight hour he sprang out on the
floor OF the hospital, thinking he was in
the battle, crying:
"Come on, boys! Forward Charger
ALL he was only battling the specters
of his own brain. But it is no imaginary
conflict into which call you, young man,
to-day. There are ten thousand spiritual
foes that would capture you. In the name
VI 6ou up anu at .bnom. After the last
store has been closed, after the last bank
has gone down, after the shuttle of the
quick feet on the custom-house steps has
stopped, after the long line of merchant
men on the sea have taken sail or flame,
after Brooklyn and New York and London
and Vienna have gone down into the grave
where Thebes and Babylon and Tyre lay
buried, after the great fire bells of the
Judgment Day have tolled at the burning
Of world on that day, all the affairs Of
the banking houses and stores will come
up for inspection.
O, what an opening of account books
Side by side, the clerks and the men who
employed them-the people who owned
stores on the same
footing with the Stewards, and the Della
nos, and the Abbotts, and the Earrings.
Every invoice made out-all the labels of
goods, all certificates of stock, all lists of
prices, all private marks of the firm, now
explained so every body can understand
them. All the maps of cities that were
never built but in which lots were sold.
All bargains. All gougings. All snap
judgments. All false entries. All adulter-
alton of liquors with copperas and strych-
nine. All mixing Of teas, and sugars, and
coffees, and sirups, with cheaper material
All entertainments of trust funds. All